The suspect, whose identity has not been released by police, is believed to be in the home at 130 Bentley Lane, which has been cordoned off by teams of responding officers while investigators and negotiators evaluate the situation and try to bring it to a peaceful end.

As of 3 a.m., however, Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said negotiators had not yet been able to establish direct contact with the subject, so there was little hard information about his condition or any sense for when the stand-off would end.

While little has been revealed about the initial confrontation, it is known from emergency dispatches that one officer was shot, and Chardo said that the investigators are operating under the belief that the subject shot him. It was not clear for this report if police returned fire.

Chardo declined to name the officer Tuesday morning, saying that he wanted to leave that to Lower Swatara Police Chief Jeffrey Vargo. Initial emergency dispatches had described the officer’s injury as a leg wound, and he was taken to Hershey Medical Center for treatment.

Police evacuated a portion of the park as a precaution as the situation continues to unfold.

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